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...federal court ruled that limiting enrollment to black boys was unconstitutional. But with few applications from girls and non-black students, the schools effectively achieved their goal. Similar schools have been established in other cities, including an all-girls school in New York City known as the East Harlem Girls' School...
...through just one mediocre movie when Life offers an anthology of them? First it's Harlem Nights: Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence meet in a Manhattan speak-easy in 1932. Then it's a period prison picture, as the stars get framed on a murder rap. Climax in the '70s with an all-male Driving Miss Daisy, and keep on meandering into the '90s as the codgers plan one last adventure. Since the characters are in stir most of the time, the film doesn't move; it just ages. Murphy's real co-star here, as in Coming to America...
Encarta Africana features video tours of important sites in black culture, including Timbuktu and Harlem...
...people--she started talking into a tape recorder at the behest of a writer friend named Gloria Bley Miller, recalling what it was like to grow up in a big family in a little house with no indoor plumbing; to pick cotton; to live in "jivey" 1940s Harlem. Miller edited the reminiscences, and Baxter's unique voice so impressed editors at a major publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf, that next month it will bring out her exuberant memoirs, The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life. "I'm the seventh child, so I know I'm lucky," says Baxter. And what better...
...Editorial writing: The New York Daily News, for a campaign to rescue Harlem's Apollo Theatre...